Garment-fastener.



R. J. MCBREEN.

GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED 1UNE 15 ms.

1,289,49 Patented Dec. 81, 1918.

RAYMOND J. MGBREEN, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GARMENT-FASTENER.

Application filed June 15, 1918.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND J. MOBREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce an efficient socket for reception through an opening in its bottom of any suitable form of stud, one of which is shown in the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, and in which Figure l is a plan view of a double-lobed blank from which a member of the socket is made, shown spread out flat with a stud engaging spring in place.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the blank shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a diametric sectional View at a line corresponding to line 33 of Fig. 1, of the complete socket in condition of use, attached to goods, and coupled with a form of stud also attached to goods.

Fig. 1 is a bottom plan view of the form of stud shown in Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, the socket comprises in its preferred form two goodsclamping members one of which, shown in Fig. 1, is made up of a double-lobed blank, the lobe 1 having an upstanding flange 2 which extends only part way around the margin of the lobe. The latter at that part of its margin which lies between the ends of the flange has an extension 3 which when bent into upstanding position forms a flange 3 supplementary to the flange 2, the two flanges constituting the edge wall of the socket. The extension 3 is integral with the other lobe 4 which in the completed member is bent into flatwise opposition to the lobe 1, and fits preferably within the flange 2, as shown in Fig. 2, then standing at rightangles thereto and to the supplementary flange .3.

The opposing surfaces of the two lobes are spaced apart to form a spring-receiving chamber in the thin box-like socket member just described. The lobe 1 has a central stud-head-and-shank receiving opening 5.

While various forms of stud-head-andshank receiving and holding springs 6 may be used, I prefer it to be a flat sheet-metal structure having radial lugs 7 the free ends of which are sprung into recesses 8 which Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

Serial No. 240,131.

open into the socket chamber and are formed in the projecting bosses 9 that are'pressed outwardly in the flange 2 and extension 3, close to the base of the flanges 2 and 3* whereby the flat spring is held flatwise in the socket chamber and against its bottom Wall formed by the lobe 1. The spring is formed with a central stud-head-andshank receiving opening 9 intersected by outwardly-extending radial slots 10 whereby it is provided with a plurality of inwardlyprojecting spring ends 11 inclosing its central opening 9 which is of lesser diameter than the stud-head-and-shank receiving opening 5 so that the spring ends 11 are free to flex flatwise when the stud-head is inserted or withdrawn through the openings 9 and 5 which are concentric.

The lobe 4 is centrally formed with a right-angular outwardly-extending tubular projection 12 the margin of the outer end of which is fiangible. This tubular projection is vertically slit at 13 from its free end toward its base, a plurality of slits being made to form a series of easily upset or flangible tongues 14 alternating with the slits 13. The described socket member is made of thin sheet-metal.

The other member of the socket is preferably in the form of a button-like head; and comprises a flat goods-engaging base 15 formed with a central opening at 16 and with an outward domed wall 17 which is centrally depressed into a cross-sectionallyround cup axially disposed relatively to the spring opening 9 and the under end of which forms the annular anvil 18 the under inward free and closed end of which is convex and is opposed to and spaced apart from the opening at 16 so that there is an annular passageway into the chamber of this domed head between the upper edge of the opening 16 and the free end of the anvil.

The goods to which the two members described are fixed are indicated by m. In assemblage the tubular projection 12 of the spring-holding socket structure is passed through a hole in the goods and through the opening at 16 of the anvil-containing member. With the free end of the tubular projection 12 entered in the central opening at 16, the anvil-containing member and the button-head member are squeezed together, whereby the inward free ends of the tongues 14 of the tubular projection are outwardly flared into said annular space which is shown filled by the soflaring ends 14: of,

the tubular extension 12. Thus the two socket members are clamped together on the goods; but if desired, the button-head member may be omitted and the spring-containing member be attached directly to the goods by upsetting the free ends of the tongues directly thereon as will be obvious from Fig. 3.

The goods 3 are shown provided with a stud 19 having a head 20 and reduced shank 21; and this stud is shown in Fig. Sin detachable connection with the socket, the reduced portion of the shank being engaged by the spring ends 11. A covering 22 is shown for the button-like member.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a fastener socket comprising two fixedly-united goods-clamping chambered members, one being a chambered head having in its bottom a central opening, within its chamber a dependent integral anvil-forming depression, the underend of which is centrally opposed to said central opening, and between the opposed Walls of the free end portion of the anvil and of said central opening, an annular clear space; and the other member being a chambered structure having on its goods-engaging wall an integral projecting tubular extension the free end of which passes through said clear space and is flaringly anchored around the anvil and in the chamber of the first-mentioned member; said other member having in its wall opposed to the tubular extension a central stud-head-receiving opening concentric with the tubular extension, and also having in itsschamber a flat stud-head-engaging and releasing spring formed with a central studhead-receiving opening concentric with the tubular extension; said spring being removed from and independent of the tubular extension to form a stud-head-receiving space between the spring and the wall from which the tubular extension projects.

2. In the structure of claim 1, outwardlypressed inwardly-recessed edge bosses adjacent the wall having the stud-receiving opening in combination with a sheet-metal spring having radial lugs in such recesses and formed with a central stud-receiving opening and interior spring ends around such opening.

3. A chambered garment-fastener socket having two opposed walls spaced apart; one of the walls having a stud-receiving opening; and the other of the walls having a tubular outward extension concentric with said opening; the wall of the tubular extension being lengthwise slit from its free end toward its base to form a plurality of fiangible tongues; in combination with a spring mounted in said chamber and having a stud-receiving opening concentric with the stud-receiving opening in the socket wall.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of June, 1918.

RAYMOND J. McBREEN.

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